Hereward Thimbleby Price

Born in 1880, he was the son of English missionaries in Madagascar and later built a distinguished career as a literary scholar and teacher. He spent many years at the University of Michigan, where he served as a professor of English and became known for his wide learning and enthusiasm for language and literature.

His writing ranged well beyond the classroom. Alongside scholarly work, he published fiction with a special taste for fantasy, folklore, and supernatural tales, giving his work an imaginative edge that still appeals to readers of strange stories.

He died in 1964. Remembered both as an academic and as a creative writer, he stands out as one of those authors whose life experience and scholarship fed directly into the atmosphere and depth of his fiction.